LITHUANIAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ARTS
AND SCIENCES
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ISSN
0024-5089
Copyright © 2018 LITUANUS Foundation, Inc. |
Volume 64,
No.2 - Summer 2018
Editor of this issue:Almantas Samalavičius |
Abstract:
The Reformation in Lithuania and Its Impact on Lithuanian Culture
Kristina Blockytė-Naujokė
Abstract
The Reformation broke out in the second decade of the sixteenth
century in a number of European countries. Different historical
experience as well as political and ethnic specificity, different
relations between political structures, the power and weakness
of forces seeking to modernize the Catholic Church, and social
conditions, resulted in the diffferent paths the Reformation took
in various countries of Europe. The Reformation brought new
cultural elements into Lithuania: the continuous process of book
publishing and the spread of literacy, the entrance of the vernacular
into the activities of the Church, and the teaching of belief
related to literacy. Evangelic reformers were the first to initiate
a Protestant university and to modernize the curricula in schools.
Thus the article covers several issues: how the Reformation entered
Lithuania, which trends entered Lithuanian society, and
what was their impact on Lithuanian culture.